anyone fitted a rainwater harvesting system and received a grant for it

Chap

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got a block of land with no mains water but with a 10,000 sq ft shed on. I want to fit a 20000 litre tank to catch water for spraying, anyone any idea how much water this might catch on average UK rainfall per year. Anyone been successful with a capital grant
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Each inch or rain you get will yield about 18,000 litres off this roof.
Depending on your location, should recieve between 20 - 80 inches per year
Surely sorting out a bit of pipework hardly justifies a grant application
A bigger question is what will you do with the water?
Especially as the bulk will come in the. Winter
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
I have a system in place, 2 10,000ltr tanks being fed off one side of a shed, every 5mm of rainfall gives me 2,000ltrs of water in the tank, I run the downpipe into a smaller "sump" tank, this catches all the crap etc that gets through my very fine mesh filter. Works well, saves me adding softeners (we are in a very hard water area). Not had any problems with blocked nozzles spraying at 100lt/ha. Did not apply for grant, cost me 2k for tanks and simple pluming. Also have heard that due to the temperature of the water (stored in black tanks above ground so warmer than water from underground pipe) fungicides tend to work better but cannot provide any proof of this. Will be putting more tanks in when another shed goes up this spring.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I would recommend below ground tanks. We have below and above ground tanks. For some reason the above ground tanks get very hydrogen sulphidey, Rotten egg smell, though it does not seem to harm crops.
 

Y Fan Wen

Member
Location
N W Snowdonia
got a block of land with no mains water but with a 10,000 sq ft shed on. I want to fit a 20000 litre tank to catch water for spraying, anyone any idea how much water this might catch on average UK rainfall per year. Anyone been successful with a capital grant
Is there an average UK rainfall (100mm last fortnight)? No location quoted (grinds gears) so we don't even know what country you are in. In Wales, Glastir Advanced and Glastir Efficiency will grant aid this.
 

trebor07

Member
For what it costs, save the time of doing a load of paperwork and put a borehole in. Usually good water quality without much treatment.
 

martian

DD Moderator
BASE UK Member
Location
N Herts
We got a grant but then noticed the new shed drains the wrong way...so haven't taken the money or put in the system. The grant was offered by the Catchment sensitive people iirr, it was relatively straightforward
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
When it was forecast for temps to drop to -10 I chickened out and drained some off, it`s a large mass of water, would take a sustained spell of minus temps to freeze it I suspect but haven't risked it so far!
Regarding sump tank, I just use one of the 100ltr blue ones (plastic) the worst of the crap builds up from the bottom, easy to swill out or replace if needed, then T it into the top of one of the main tanks, this in turn is T`ed into the remaining tank using camlock connectors (I use two 10,000ltr tanks), I tend to draw spraying water from the last tank in the line, once that`s used I will then draw from the first one.
 

JezzaB76

Member
Location
Norfolk
got a block of land with no mains water but with a 10,000 sq ft shed on. I want to fit a 20000 litre tank to catch water for spraying, anyone any idea how much water this might catch on average UK rainfall per year. Anyone been successful with a capital grant

I got a capital grant from Catchment Sensitive Farming for rainwater harvesting equipment and a spray wash down pad with biofilter 50% grant....
 

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